The year is 1778, the ship is the 18-gun HMS Sparrow, England's finest sloop of war, and the Captain is Richard Bolitho, sailing his command into the fury of battle.
"For the young Richard Bolitho the spring of 1778 marked a complete transformation for himself and his future. It was the year in which the American War of Independence changed to an all-out struggle for freedom from British rule - and the year when Bolitho took command of the Sparrow, a small, fast and well-armed sloop of war. As the pace of war increased, the Sparrow was called from one crisis to another - and when the great fleets of Britain and France convened on the Chesapeake, Bolitho had to throw aside the early dreams of his first command to find maturity in a sea battle that might decide the fate of a whole continent."
"In 1778, British Navy Captain Richard Bolitho must fight the rebellious American colonists while steering clear of a treacherous woman, an incompetent senior officer, privateers, and marauding French warships."
"Avec ce roman, le dixième (mais l'auteur a veillé à ce qu'on puisse les lire dans l'ordre qu'on voudra), se poursuit la série romanesque du Captaine Bolitho. 1778 : Richard Bolitho se voit confier sa première corvette, L'Hirondelle, un fier voilier, servi hélas par un équipage peu habitué au combat. Après trois ans de campagne il retournera à bon port, avec un équipage entre-temps aguerri."
"En 1778, la guerre menée contre l'Angleterre par les colonies d'Amérique implique à présent la France. Les corsaires multiplient leurs mauvaises actions en mer des Antilles. Richard Bolitho se voit confier sa première corvette, l'Hirondelle : un fier voilier malheureusement servi par un équipage peu habitué au combat. En 1781, éclate la bataille de la baie de Chesapeake.--[Memento]."
"The year is 1778, the ship is the 18-gun HMS Sparrow, England's finest sloop of war, and the Captain is Richard Bolitho, sailing his command into the fury of battle."@en
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